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Overview

DreamHost was originally founded in 1997 as the New Dream Network while its founders were still undergraduates at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California. Here's a picture of Josh, Sage, Michael and Dallas on graduation day.

Since then, the company name has changed to DreamHost and currently hosts over a million websites from all over the world.

DreamHost currently offers a variety of services to host your website, including:

Website hosting

WordPress dedicated hosting

Email hosting

Domain registration

Cloud services

This article is a quick overview of these services and includes additional links to help you obtain a quick understanding of what DreamHost has to offer. If you’d like to skip this overview and get started right away, then view the following article:

Email hosting

Email hosting is included for free with any of the hosting plans mentioned above. This includes free Webmail service as well. However, it’s not possible to host email without a hosting plan, which means that if you wish to host email at DreamHost for your domain, you must also purchase a hosting plan as email-only accounts are not available.

DreamHost also offers two types of list services (these services do not require a hosting plan):

Domain registrations

DreamHost offers the ability to purchase a domain registration from within the panel. Purchasing a domain registration does not require you to also have a hosting plan with DreamHost – once the domain is registered, you can host it anywhere you like. However, it’s easier to keep everything in the same place.

Additionally, if you purchase a shared hosting plan, you get a free registration for a .com, .net, .org, or .info domain.

To view a list of new TLDs DreamHost recently began offering along with a tool to see if the registration is available, visit the following page:

DreamCompute

DreamCompute allows you to control your own personal cloud server with scalable resources, which is especially useful for developers and startups. Visit the following pages for more information about this service: